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Berbers proud, resentful over ancient way of life. The glare of an arc lamp reveals a stretch of dirt track where, to the beat of a drum, villagers huddled in a circle sing in honor of the bride.
IMILCHIL, Morocco — Deep in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, the ancient Berbers live on, defying a harsh environment and loyal to their traditions and way of life in some of the most hard-to-reach ...
2001-03-16 04:00:00 PDT Rabat, Morocco-- A war of words over the Berber and Arabic languages is heating up in Morocco, threatening to divide the kingdom in much the same way the battle between ...
The Berbers, who refer to themselves as the Amazigh meaning “free man”, have long fought for greater recognition for their ancient ethnic group, their culture and language.
A broiling sun cooked the melange of cars, buses, trucks, donkey carts, mopeds and taxis as our minivan maneuvered its way out of Fez. We were headed south on Highway P-24 toward the Middle ...
In a packed classroom on a cool evening near the front line in Libya's civil war, 15-year-old Mira is teaching children to spell out the names of animals in the ancient Berber script, an act that ...
IMILCHIL, Morocco — Deep in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, the ancient Berbers live on, defying a harsh environment and loyal to their traditions and way of life in some of the most hard-to-reach ...
The ancient Casablanca has witnessed the different changes that occurred throughout the centuries in North Africa and Morocco ...